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feeling

feeling - noun

  1. A particular sensation conveyed by means of physical contact: feel, touch. See touch.
  2. The faculty or ability to perceive tactile stimulation: feel, tactility, touch. See touch.
  3. An act of touching: palpation, touch. See touch.
  4. The capacity for or an act of responding to a stimulus: sensation, sense, sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity, sentiment. See awareness.
  5. A general cast of mind with regard to something: attitude, sentiment. See attitude.
  6. A complex and usually strong subjective response, such as love or hate: affection, affectivity, emotion, sentiment. See feelings.
  7. The quality or condition of being emotionally and intuitively sensitive: sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity. See awareness.
  8. Something believed or accepted as true by a person: belief, conviction, idea, mind, notion, opinion, persuasion, position, sentiment, view. See opinion.
  9. A general impression produced by a predominant quality or characteristic: air, ambiance, atmosphere, aura, feel, mood, smell, tone. See be.
  10. Intuitive cognition: hunch, idea, impression, intuition, suspicion. See thoughts.

feeling - adjective

  1. Cognizant of and comprehending the needs, feelings, problems, and views of others: empathetic, empathic, sympathetic, understanding. See understand.
  2. Readily stirred by emotion: emotional, sensitive. See feelings.
feel

feel - verb

  1. To be physically aware of through the senses: experience, have. See knowledge.
  2. To bring the hands or fingers, for example, into contact with so as to give or receive a physical sensation: finger, handle, palpate, touch. See touch.
  3. To reach about or search blindly or uncertainly: fumble, grabble, grope, poke. See seek. touch.
  4. To participate in or partake of personally: experience, go through, have, know, meet(with), see, suffer, taste(of), undergo. Archaic prove. See participate.
  5. To be intuitively aware of: apprehend, intuit, perceive, sense. See knowledge.
  6. To undergo an emotional reaction: experience, have, know, savor, taste. See feelings.
  7. To experience or express compassion: ache, commiserate, compassionate, pity, sympathize, yearn. See pity.
  8. To view in a certain way: believe, hold, sense, think. See opinion.

feel out - phrasal verb

  1. To test the attitude of: probe, sound(out). See investigate.

feel - noun

  1. A particular sensation conveyed by means of physical contact: feeling, touch. See touch.
  2. The faculty or ability to perceive tactile stimulation: feeling, tactility, touch. See touch.
  3. A general impression produced by a predominant quality or characteristic: air, ambiance, atmosphere, aura, feeling, mood, smell, tone. See be.
  4. The proper method for doing, using, or handling something: knack, trick. Informal hang. See ability.